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By day: CEOs and corporate boards. By night: Doctoral student at Northeastern University. Even later at night: Historian and writer. Chef and baker. Muddling photographer. Woodworker who somehow still has all his fingers. Manservant to a cavapoo.
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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who dove onto President John F. Kennedy’s uncovered limousine in Dallas in a heroic attempt to shield him from the fatal gunshots Lee Harvey Oswald fired, died Feb. 21. He was 93.

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I tell my cat “I know” when she meows at me but if I’m being honest? I don’t always know

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Someone came out of the yarn room

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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It’s pretty rare that a white nerd gets to talk shit like this, happy for him

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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

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Wishing a happy Valentine's Day to my friends across the world, and particularly the attractive tabby that I sometimes see gliding through St James' Park

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Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

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A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

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This is Blackjack. He was throwing a bit of a puppy tantrum. But just like a toddler, he immediately calmed down when his favorite show came on. 12/10

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El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment has ended after four years. Here's what the experiment taught us about bitcoin as money. My latest 👉 jpkoning.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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When you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy.

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Pleased to host this opinion piece by @dixondaver.bsky.social - Did You Mean It angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/10/d...

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If you've never kept chickens you might not know they are vicious little dinosaurs out for #1. But they are.

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1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

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Among other details here: A woman who co-owns the house where Coristine registered his LLC, Tesla.Sexy, and who appears with him and his father in Instagram posts going back years is a native of Russia.

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As current EiC I am happy to answer any questions people might have about the role. I might be a bit biased, but I think this is a wonderful opportunity.

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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Boston Public Library, USA

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Musk should go to federal prison for years for this. Just like any other non-government employee without any sort of clearance would be if they took control of this information. truthout.org/articles/mus...

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Developing a list of Org Scholars and Scholarship. Let me know if you would like to be added!!! @aomconnect.bsky.social @aomsim.bsky.social @orgscience.bsky.social @orgstudies.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

On the value of Twitter, btw - We had similar traffic from Bluesky, where the FT has 300 thousand followers, to what came from Twitter, where we supposedly have 6 million.

submitted 34 days ago • 65 comments

Word of the day is one I may have mentioned (frequently): a ‘snaccident’ is the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits.

submitted 26 days ago • 132 comments

300 jobs to go at Newcastle University, 300 at Dundee University. You cannot fund a mass expansion of HE for £9k per student. Especially not expensive lab-based courses.

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I regret to inform you that trying hard and practicing can make you better at things

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With Dr. Phil going on raids against immigrants, Dr. Oz is ready to announce a trip to the St Jude Hospital to turn off life support on kids with cancer.

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It has come to my attention that some of you may like to see a video of my rabbit Leonard loudly eating parsley.

submitted 32 days ago • 69 comments

When my kids decided, quite vehemently, that they weren’t “sports kids,” I thought I had escaped weekend extracurriculars. Yet here I am, early on a Saturday morning, driving my kid to a *math exam*, and I feel BETRAYED.

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"The less I had a life, the louder I was about being a Trump supporter."

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Bone marrow: what if a steak was also butter, or butter was also a steak.

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Relatable

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“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.

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I do not condone torture but has the cia considered hiring four year olds at bedtime

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Oh no that’s horrible. I sure hope no one else sends fake reports to [email protected].

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